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Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

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• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Responsibility

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • American
  • Style
  • Creative

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • School
  • Age
  • Day

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Play
  • Try

• So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Revolution

• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Hell

• While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Trust
  • Cards
  • Cut

• It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Lying
  • Lie
  • Save

• A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Religion

• Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Prayer

• I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Needs
  • Acting
  • Actors

• Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Religion
  • Human History
  • Debated